Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon Opening Day Talk

Stanley Whitney in Conversation with Odili Donald Odita

Join Stanley Whitney for a discussion of his new retrospective Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon with painter Odili Donald Odita. The pair will explore their shared engagement with abstraction, color, perception, and other elements in their work. Following the conversation, exhibition curator Cathleen Chaffee (Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum) will join Whitney and Odita for audience questions.

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Bios:
Stanley Whitney is an artist who lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York, and Parma, Italy. He holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University and is professor emeritus of painting and drawing at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Whitney’s work is held in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Odili Donald Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is a professor in painting, drawing, and sculpture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and art institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Studio Museum in Harlem, Prospect.4, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Odita has been commissioned to paint large-scale wall installations at institutions that include the Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa; Rice University; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; the Ford Foundation for Social Justice, New York; ICA, Miami; Newark Museum; Ezra Stiles College at Yale University; United States Mission to the United Nations in New York; and the 52nd Venice Biennale exhibition, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind.